Halloween 2000
It was like this:
3:00 am I hear banging noises. Where are they coming from? I put on my glasses to see the faint image of a girl's legs behind my mini-blinds.
Tip-toeing to the window above mine she keeps banging. "Nick, why are you doing this to me?" Crying she continues, "Why do you fuck me and then ignore me?!" A voice from inside the apartment right above me answers, "You're acting crazy, go home!" Sobbing she falls to the ground, her skirt fluttering in the cold wind. This episode repeats another 3 times and finally Nick says, "Don't you realize there are other people who live in this house?" "I don't care!"-she yells. "Well, I do because I live here!"- was the last I heard of the guy above me.
I waited for about 5 minutes, hearing her sob and repeating "why, why me?"
I could tell that she was tossing and turning about because the leaves were crunching every time she moved. I couldn't stand it. There was a reason I had to hear this. So, I got dressed and went out there. It was like a black and white photograph. She was sprawled out amongst the grass and leaves- still crying. I asked if she was "ok"- the only thing I could think of at the moment. Everything seemed to lose its color as I went outside. She had a white dress on and her face was painted white to match her costume. Dark eye makeup ran down her cheeks along with her tears.
The grass and fallen leaves seemed like a sea of black engulfing this little costumed creature.
She didn't want me to walk her home and she constantly said "sorry" for waking me up. I told her that it always seems 10 times worse at night and that she should go home, go to bed and it would be a little better in the morning. She replied, gasping for air, that it was always 10 times worse in the morning because you wake up and realize the person isn't there and they don't care about you. I was dumbfounded and hard up for words. I left her there and came back into the bright light of the hallway which now smelled like microwave popcorn.
Wendy
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